The rat kidney was peculiarly beautiful — an edgeless viscera about the size of a quarter, gemstone-like and gleaming as if encased in pure glass. It owed its veneer to a frosty descent in liquid ...

Thousands of donated organs are discarded every year. As soon as one becomes available, doctors race to find a compatible recipient—but transplantation time lines are measured in hours, and many ...

Miniature human livers have been successfully grown in a lab by scientists – who then transplanted them into rats. Human volunteers donated skin cells which researchers then developed into ...

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A team of cryo-engineers and surgeons at the University of Minnesota has found a way to cryogenically freeze and thaw rat organs in a way that preserves their viability. In their study, reported in ...

Animals do a lot for humans: nurture us with therapy, nourish us with food, and even test medicines for us. Now, scientists hope they’ll also let us use their organs, too. Scientists in Japan say they ...

Germ cell production in genetically modified hybrid animals is now a reality rather than science fiction, as recently demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich. Stem cell biologist Ori Bar-Nur, PhD, ...

Researchers investigating the rejuvenation effects of young rat blood plasma on the tissues of old rats have found astonishing results. According to the researchers’ study, the young rat plasma was ...